Grow Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables in 5 Easy Steps: Permaculture for Beginners

By Britt Banz

Permaculture is a method of growing fresh fruits and vegetables. This is how you become a self-sufficient, passionate individual.

Sustainable vegetable farming not only makes you happy, but it also helps the environment. The permaculture for beginners guide will accompany you from seed to harvest. As a beginning home grower, you must understand how to properly care for your plants.

Ready to redesign your garden using permaculture principles?
Would you like to protect your plants from vermin, but without chemicals?
Do you want to know how to naturally enrich the soil with nutrients?
Then permaculture is the path for you! Perhaps you have never heard of the term "permaculture". That is irrelevant because everything necessary is explained in this book.

You will first receive a brief introduction to the thematic background. Then it's on to the practice. There are suggestions and instructions on how to grow fruit, vegetables, and herbs in your garden and even on your balcony - all organically, of course.

Don't pass up the opportunity to learn how to grow your own fruits and vegetables.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Reynolds
• Release date: Mar 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215680100

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Table of Contents

What exactly is permaculture?

1. Preliminary considerations & basic elements

2. Much more than looks: garden and bed shapes

Pure nature - the forest garden

Fruit tree community

Food for humans and animals – the meadow orchard

Vegetables and herbs in individual beds

Steep up – the vertical garden

What is a ground rent and how do you create it?

And without a garden? Permaculture on the balcony

3. Basis of (plant) life: soil and management

Plants as a symbiotic community: green manure

Well protected is better: floor protection and floor care

What can the soil? analysis of the circumstances

From plants for plants: compost, humus and manure

Black Miracle: Terra Preta

Irrigation - is it really necessary?

Soil in pots - what is there to consider?

4. Plants in the permaculture garden

fruit trees and shrubs

Dwarf fruit bushes, climbing fruit plants and ground fruit

Leafy vegetables

cabbage

fruit vegetables

root and tuber vegetables

Herbs

5. Guests: Pests and beneficial insects

Pests and diseases of crops

Healthy plants without chemicals

friends and helpers

Attract and settle beneficial insects

Final word

Grow Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables in 5 Easy Steps: Permaculture for Beginners

Author: Britt Banz

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What exactly is permaculture?

Permaculture is a whole life principle that goes far beyond growing fruits and vegetables. It was developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s and is based on ancient Aboriginal knowledge. Mollison and Holmgren spent some time with the Australian Aborigines and learned from them a different way of dealing with nature and social interaction.

The Aborigines have lived in harmony with nature since the dawn of their existence, believing that nature is the mother of all life. Put simply, gods came to earth in animal forms and created the various landscapes. Respecting nature comes naturally to the Aborigines, after all it is a direct expression of the gods and they owe their lives to them.

Similar thought principles can also be found in other ancient philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism of the Far East or the Stoicism of ancient Greece. Humans are only a small part of the big picture and must fit into nature in order to be able to live healthy and happy lives. He may use it, but only to the extent that it does not harm it, and he should conform to its principles. What nature does is always right, and in order to attain well-being and contentment for oneself, man should live as nature dictates.

These ancient wisdoms form the philosophical basis for permaculture; However, this is less of an intellectual and more of a practical concept that enables you to live in harmony with nature directly. Mollison and Holmgren developed comprehensive models of how various areas of life can be designed responsibly and sustainably:

The environment and the buildings are to be built from environmentally friendly materials and managed with energy from renewable sources.

Waste should be avoided as much as possible in order not to further pollute the environment. Waste that cannot be avoided should be used sensibly (e.g. recycling or energy generation).

If possible, mobility should be by bicycle and public transport in order to produce as few exhaust gases as possible.

People should be self-sufficient mainly through their own cultivation and production, so that they can live independently and are largely independent of the economy.

Food should be grown ecologically and biologically so that neither nature nor humans are polluted by chemicals, genetic engineering or monocultures.

Cultivation and production should take place with respect for the animal and plant world and should not harm the environment if possible, which means, for example, that no meat from factory farming may be consumed.

Goods that are not needed should be exchanged and given away in order to produce less waste, to have to produce less and to help people in need.

Resources should be distributed fairly and used responsibly so that everyone has the same chances in life in the long term.

Medicine should be holistic and natural, i.e. no symptom-related orthodox medicine with chemical drugs, but for example homeopathy, herbal medicine or acupuncture.

People should live together in a social community, develop joint cultural projects and pass on their knowledge of nature and ethics to the next generations.

This way of life benefits everyone, since the environment is protected considerably and health is promoted. There is more peace and harmony, the food is healthier, you spend more time in the fresh air and, above all, you preserve the planet for your own children, grandchildren and future generations. The latter is the guiding principle: Long-term instead of short-term.

Although everyone now knows that the future of our planet is in a bad way, many still carry on as if there were no tomorrow. Resources are exploited, nature is destroyed, air and water are polluted. Many animal and plant species have already become extinct, countless are threatened with extinction and if global warming continues at the current rate, it will be critical for the survival of everyone, including humans, by the year 2100 at the latest. Most of those who are alive now will no longer be there, but their children or grandchildren will be and would also like to lead a healthy, beautiful life. But if we continue like this, that will no longer be possible. Unfortunately, most people only think of themselves, neither of their own descendants nor of people in other countries who produce our cheap goods for cheap wages, let alone animals and plants. A rethink is urgently needed - permaculture is an ideal start for this.

In the concept of permaculture, people, animals and plants live in a diverse, complementary community, so that everyone is well and can develop optimally. Another goal is to use existing land more sensibly instead of taking more land away from nature, so that animals and plants can remain undisturbed habitats. The life principle of permaculture places high demands on each individual, as they are already contained in the old philosophies. You have to question your own behavior and be careful to be really mindful and respectful of everything and everyone. Consumer behavior is to be greatly reduced; you should only buy what you really need. Things that are not needed should be given away, shared or used for other meaningful purposes. Broken things should not be thrown away, they should be repaired, and when something is discarded, it must be properly separated and recycled. Man should not turn against nature, but live in her and with her, because without her he would not exist. Nature with all its diversity represents the basis of all life. Everything in nature takes place in a meaningful cycle. Nature can (usually, if man were not there) provide